1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792233103321

Autore

Gilmore Michael T

Titolo

Surface and depth [[electronic resource] ] : the quest for legibility in American culture / / Michael T. Gilmore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-028906-6

0-19-531324-0

0-19-803587-X

1-60256-941-X

9786610502776

1-280-50277-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

818/.08

Soggetti

American prose literature - History and criticism

Social problems in literature

National characteristics, American, in literature

American fiction - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States

United States In literature

United States Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE : Freud's Night Out; 1 Three Foundational Documents and Their Indelibility; 2 Majoritarian and Racial Tyranny: Tocqueville and Beaumont; 3 Popular Forms; Cooper and the Western; Poe and the Detective Story; Fanny Fern and the Celebrity Novel; 4 The Nineteenth-Century Canon: Hidden in Plain Sight; The Scarlet Letter; Melville's Moby-Dick; Thoreau's Walden; James's The American; 5 Freud and Film Redux; 6 Twentieth-Century Classics and New Technologies of Legibility; Wharton's Summer; Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a "Modernist" Western

Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises7 Race/Erasure: Douglass to Roth; EQUIVOCAL EPILOGUE : Total Visibility in Utopia and Dystopia; NOTES;



INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

The idea of a common American culture is in retreat; arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. This work is an attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145322503321

Titolo

African journal of paediatric surgery : AJPS

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, : Dept. of Surgery, Jos University Teaching Hospital

ISSN

0974-5998

Soggetti

Children - Surgery

Pediatrics

Surgical Procedures, Operative

Child

Infant

Periodical

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Vols. for <2008-> published in India by Medknow Publications.

Refereed/Peer-reviewed